I was thinking I'd install distcc on my SPARCstation 5 to cross-compile stuff with some Pentium 3 and 4 machines around here. Has anyone ever setup a similar scenario and succeeded or failed? I'm thinking it should be possible with the same version of gcc but I might have to emerge some sparc-specific tools on the Pentium machines first. Any comments welcome, thanks!_________________Meh.

Your not going to be able to compile any kindof sparc binaries from an intel machine, unless you are using a cross-compiler. To answer you next inevidable question, I do not know of any intel/sparc cross-compilers. I'm fairly certain that such a program would be impossible .... (Compiler wizards chime in here if I'm wrong)

For the cross compiling tool chains I would suggest using the same versions of binutils, glibc and gcc as the machine they are compiling for. I have had best rest results this way. I have also had good results building a cross tool chain that runs under cygwin so the remote machine can stay running windows if need be.